Remembering your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy,

clearly recalling your sincere faith that first lived in your grandmother Lois, then in your mother Eunice, and that I am convinced is in you also.

Therefore, I remind you to keep ablaze the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands.

and that is why I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know the One I have believed in and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day.

Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

Guard, through the Holy Spirit who lives in us, that good thing entrusted to you.

May the Lord grant that he obtain mercy from Him on that day. And you know very well how much he ministered at Ephesus.

You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

This is why I endure all things for the elect: so that they also may obtain salvation, which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

They have deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and are overturning the faith of some.

But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they breed quarrels.

along with the persecutions and sufferings that came to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from them all.

and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

There is reserved for me in the future the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me, but to all those who have loved His appearing.

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the proclamation might be fully made through me and all the Gentiles might hear. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.